Billie Eilish has had quite a year. She debuted her first full-length album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, scored her first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Bad Guy,” and snatched three VMAs at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (for New Artist, Push Artist, and Editing). Launching off of her newfound success, Billie used her podium to bring attention to an issue very dear to the singer: climate change.
In her notoriously nonchalant, California style, Lana Del Rey released a cover of Sublime’s “Doin’ Time,” which will be featured on her upcoming album, Norman Fucking Rockwell. Sublime was known for embodying the SoCal vibe – something Lana herself loves to exude – but tragically the band broke up after lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an overdose shortly before their third album’s release. The song explores a theme well known to Del Rey—domestic violence—and is slated to be featured on the upcoming documentary about the ska-punk band, titled Sublime.
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“Music To Watch Boys To” from Lana Del Rey’s third album, Honeymoon, is a pop-noir slow-burner that dives head first into her trademark bleak songwriting. For this track, Del Rey teamed up with “Summertime Sadness” collaborator Rick Boyles, and the outcome is undeniably dark. Executed to perfection, the song is far more than it appears to be.